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Appendix
JV1inutes. of
The Faculty Senate of 0 regon State Un iversity
FOR ALL ACADEMIC
1982 Meeting
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393 - November
Vol. 22, 11 8
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- November
10, 1982
4, 1982
The regular November meeting of the Faculty
Senate was called to order by President Robert
Becker at 3:30 p.m. in the OSU Foundation Ctr.
Minutes of the October meeting were approved
as published in the Staff Newsletter Appendix.
President Becker then declared nominations
open from the floor; there were none.
The
nominees presented by the Nominations Committee were declared to comprise the slate of
nominees for election to the various positions
and the nominations were closed.
Members Present:
Bayne, Beaudreau, B.
Becker, R. Becker, Bell, Bond, Borg, Brookes,
v'Promotion and Tenure Committee, Chrm. Harry
Burleson, Cate, Chambers, Chappell, Christensen,
Freund reporting:
Freund explained the Comm.
Coo1en, Cross, Crisman, Dane, Dickinson,
approach to this matter. It was divided into
Do1er; Faulkenberry, Campbell, Gamble,
several areas - read prior reports, briefed
Gardner, Giblin, Grady, Hisaw, Holmes,
thoroughly by Dean Nicodemus re schedule and
Isenberg, Kennick, Krueger, Lek1em, Leman,
nature of final proceedings, and studied the
Leong, Luba, McGill, McMahon, MacDonald,
dossiers of the individuals;
finally, moniMiller, Miner, Morris, Mosley, Mrazek,
tored the final review process, with each
member taking extensive notes.
Because of
Neshyba, Orzech, Pearcy, Peck, Pye-Petersen,
Peterson, Phelps, Phillips, Piepmeier, Plant,
the confidentiality of the materials, the rePoling, Reed, Rice-Sayre; Scanlan, Schary,
port becomes a review of perceptions and reSchwartz, Shepard, Stebbins, Stone, Tiedeman, I
actions to the process.
freund reviewed some of the suggestions of
Vars, Vo1k, Walter, West, Witt, and Zaworskitf
the Committee.
He also acknowledged the asMembers Absent were Represented as Follows:
sistance of both President MacVicar and Dean
Nicodemus.
C. Stamps, Streit; M. Stamps, Egberg; Nelson,
Upon completion of the P&T Report, Senator
~ackey;
Adams, McNees; Eckenrode, Block,
/' ~tze,
Hage1stein; Hellickson, English.
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Vars presented the following motion to the
Senate:
(82-393-1)
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"Moved, that the Oregon State University
.embers Absent were:
Bodyfe1t, Buffa,
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Faculty Senate accept the Annual Report
Bottomley, Cameron, Chapman, Cook, Copek,
on Promotion and Tenure, 1982, and direct_
Farber, Fendall, Firey, Fro lander , Griffiths,
Harp, Jensen, Johnson, King, Kling, Komar,
the Executive Committee to send it, with
Le Lbowf.tz , Lombard, MacVicar, Nic;odemus,
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the Senate's endorsement of its recommenO'Connor, Walstad, Wickman, William, Wilson.~7
dations (described in Sec. IV., B) to the
President, all Deans and Directors, and all
department chairs and heads of this UniverGuests of the Senate were:
Jean Peters (Home
sity."
Ec., Nominee for Senate President-Elect),
Dwight (Pete) Fullerton (Pharm., Nominee for
The motion was seconded and carried.
President-Elect); Harry Freund (P&T Comm.);
Everett Hansen; Glenn Klein (IFS); Phyllis
V£y1aws Committee, Virginia Dickinson, Chrm.,
Lee; E. Dundi; Gavin Thayer (ASOSU).
reporting:
Dickinson presented a report which
described the Committee's survey of "Unassociated FTE" and their desire to form a unit of
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their own for the purposes of voting andrepre~ortionment,
President Becker reporting:
sentation in the Senate. After extensive disBecker noted that the apportionment used for
cussion, the Senate passed the following motion
the 1983 election of Faculty Senators would
(82-393-2) made by Sen. Shepard:
"Moved, that the Bylaws Committee prepare
be based on last year's (as approved at the
October Senate meeting), and that there
proposed amendments in the appropriate
would not be any additions or deletions to
Bylaws sections which would accommodate
colleges and schools.
The chart, as printed,
an unassociated faculty unit."
shows several alterations, which were applicSeconded; carried.
able then, but not at this time.
vTax Deferred Annuities, Les Strickler, Member,
Retlrement Comm., reporting:
Strickler noted
vNominations Committee, Solon Stone (for Parks)
reporting:
Stone presented the slate of
that there was no written report for the Senate
to read, but he felt there was need to share
nominees for each position;
President-Elect:
Dwight (Pete) Fullerton
the information before mis-information
began.
He has been serving on an OSSHE committee
(Pharmacy), and Jean Peters (Home Ec.).
which reviews and decides on the kinds of TDA's
~nterinstitutiona1
Faculty Senate:
Wil
available to state employes.
The group has
~ble (Bio/Bio), and Nancy Leman (English).
chosen Mil1eman and Roberts (currently the
;ecutive Committee:
Agnes Grady (Library),
PERS actuary) to provide the additional options
_4e Ann Holmes (Foods & Nutrition), James
in the tax deferred annuity program, which will
Krueger (Chemistry), John Morris (Zoology),
be made availabe beginning in January 1983.
Bruce Shepard (Political Sci.), and Gary
Tiedeman (Sociology).
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He pleaded for understanding on the part of
participants for a one time $5.00 charge which
will be made to individual accounts for handling
the new options.
This one time fee is intended
to cover the additional administrative costs
in
making the program available.
Participants
will be asked to authorize removal of the $5
from their fund. The account that is managed
is a courtesy, and does cost in man hours, etc.
The Consultant fee is $10,000. The State System
cannot be asked to absorb this amount 0'£- money.
Strickler'indicated
that the Retirement Comm.
will schedule some group meetings to explain
fully the new options.
In answer to a question,
Strickler responded that it will be possible
for individuals to shift from the current plan
to one of the new ones.
Senate approve the motion passed by the IFS
with the substitution of the words Faculty Senate;
seconded.
As follows:
(82-393-4)
"The Faculty Senate supports and finds
,,---desirable the efforts to improve the requirements for admissions to Oregon's Colleges and Universities,
The Faculty Senate
recommends that such improved requirements
permit variances for admission of students
who have attended school in an Oregon School
di~trict which, for reasons beyond the student's and/or school districts control did not
provide the opportunity for the student to meet
all of the prerequisites for admission."
The motion carried.
Efforts to amend the motion
by deleting the second sentence were unsuccessful.
Reports from the Executive Connnittee
VBudgets & Fiscal Planning Connnittee, John Block,
Chrm., reporting:
Block reported that the B&FPC vPAC-IO Faculty Leadership Conference, President
had reviewed the curricular proposals for
Becker reporting:
Becker reported that the
1983-84 (which will be presented to the Senate
Conference here on October 28-30 was a "Half-PAC"
at the Special Meeting on Nov. 18), and found
since only five institutions attended.
He enumerthat only one of the proposals would require
ated topics of consideration which were published
additional funding.
A perceived matter of
in the Staff Newsletter and in a letter to all
duplication within the School of Business
Faculty prior to the Conference.
He announced
should be addressed by the Curriculum Council,
that the 1983 Conference will be in Southern
Brock's committee reported.
California.
~nterinstitutional
Faculty Senate, Thurston Doler,
IFS Chairman, reporting:
Doler reported on the
Fall session held at OSU October 29 & 30, which
was addressed, jointly with the PAC-IO, by
Chancellor Bud Davis.
The Chancellor talked
a lot about excellence in Higher Education,
Doler noted.
Several significant reconnnendations
came out of the IFS session, Doler reported.
Other actions included:
1. Adoption of a motiou~
supporting improved admissions standards (see .
motion 82-393-4 above).
2. That in the propose,
protocol, akntitled "Standards for Program Approval.,
for regulation of teacher education standards,
the Consortium serve as an advisory agent and
that the Teachers Standards and Practices Commission retain its function as the regulatory
agent; b) that the origin of educational programs
should rest primarily with the Faculty and
Administrators of the Colleges of Education,
c) that the TSP Connnission eliminate variances
in its policies with that of NCATE, when such
variances create hardship and unnecessary duplication of effort for the Colleges of Education
in the fulfillment of the required standards.
Further, Doler reported, IFS voted to include
in its Minutes a copy of Internal Management
Directive 1.120, "Authority and Responsibility
of the Presidents," with specific reference to
1.126, "Internal Governance," which deals
specifically with the right to internal governance.
aculty Economic Welfare Connnittee, Chrm. Van
Volk reporting:
Volk reported that the FEWC
recommended approval of the proposal to convert payroll from the last day of the month
to the first day of the month, for two reasons;
1) to help comply with an IRS ruling and 2)
will bring OSU in line with all other State
agencies.
Several other criteria were enumerated: No negative impact on retirees; will
be in lower tax bracket for the tax year in
which employes receive 11 checks.
After discussion, Chrm. Volk moved adoption of the
FEWC recommendation
(82-393-3) ·to convert the
payroll from the Last; day of the month to the
first day of the month; seconded, carried."
vOSU-WOSC School of Education, Dean Robert Barr
reporting:
Dean Barr', newly-appointed
Dean
of the combined OSU-WOSC School of Education
addressed the Senate briefly and presented
the organizational state of the new school
and some background information.
Several
questions arose; one was related to the choice
of name for the new School.
Barr responded
that a number of options were discussed by the
State System connnittees who planned the merger
(including OCE and Oregon Center for Teaching
Research).
When asked about the size of the
OSU School of Educat ion, Barr .indicated there
is about 58 FTE here, and approximately 100
FTE at WOSC. The Education program at WOSC
comprises approximately one-half to two-thirds
of the WOSC operation.
The remainder are
Liberal Arts, police, and corrections programs.
The meeting was adjourned
vProposed Admission S.tandards for OSSHE Colleges
and Universities, President-Elect
Scanlan reporting:
Scanlan reviewed the recently announced
"Campaign for Excellence" and its approval by
the State Board. Wil Gamble reported on action
by the IFS at their meeting on October 30.
Austin Walter reported on the findings of the
Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Connnittee asked to review
the proposal and possible ramifications from
the Faculty view.
Sen. Zaworski, Engr., moved that the Faculty
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at 5:15 p.m.
Shirley Schroeder
Thurston Doler
Recording Secretaries